{"id":6285,"date":"2020-01-28T21:16:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T21:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codoplex.com\/?p=6285"},"modified":"2025-07-25T09:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:49:04","slug":"what-is-nodejs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.codoplex.com\/what-is-nodejs\/","title":{"rendered":"What is NodeJS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This short guide describes briefly what is NodeJS. Following are some of the references to the definition and explanation of the question <em>What is NodeJS<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> Node.js\u00ae is a JavaScript runtime built on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/v8.dev\/\">Chrome&#8217;s V8 JavaScript engine<\/a>. <\/p><cite> <a href=\"https:\/\/nodejs.org\/en\/\">https:\/\/nodejs.org\/en\/<\/a> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside of a browser. <\/p><cite>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Node.js<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Node.js is an open source server environment which runs on various platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, etc.)<\/p><cite> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/nodejs\/nodejs_intro.asp\">https:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/nodejs\/nodejs_intro.asp<\/a> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>NodeJS is not programming language or framework<\/li><li>NodeJS is a run-time environment to execute JavaScript code<\/li><li>NodeJS is asynchronous which means that it can handle multiple requests at the same time without any delay<\/li><li> Core NodeJS modules include OS (Operating System), FS (File System), Events and HTTP<\/li><li>Modules are used in NodeJS to organize the code. There are some built-in modules available as well. every file is a module in NodeJS<\/li><li>We need to export the variables and methods if we want to use them outside the modules<\/li><li>Require function is used to load a module in another module<\/li><li>Module wrapper function is automatically added in each module by NodeJS<\/li><li>Each wrapper function have access to the local variables like require, module, exports, __filename, __dirname<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short guide describes briefly what is NodeJS. Following are some of the references to the definition and explanation of the question What is NodeJS. Node.js\u00ae is a JavaScript runtime built on\u00a0Chrome&#8217;s V8 JavaScript engine. https:\/\/nodejs.org\/en\/ Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside of a browser. https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Node.js Node.js is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-6285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nodejs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.codoplex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.codoplex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.codoplex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.codoplex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.codoplex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.codoplex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7275,"href":"https:\/\/blog.codoplex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285\/revisions\/7275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.codoplex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.codoplex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.codoplex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}